A couple of stories have come out recently about transport infrastructure along the Costa del Sol. The first was an article in Sur in early July about the record numbers of people passing through Malaga airport in June this year. Apparently not only did June 2025 surpass all previous records for this month but it also closed off the first half of the year with the highest number of passengers in January-June since records began, over 100 years ago.
More than 2.6 million passengers passed through Malaga Airport in the month of June alone, and, within the first half of the year, the number was an amazing 12,394,682, a million more than for the same period in 2024, with a total of 87,434 aircraft landing and taking off, an 8.2% increase on 2024. According to Sur, this makes Malaga airport the fourth most important in the country and the fastest growing of the top four.
Read the article here.
And secondly Sur reported a couple of days ago on the visit of Óscar Puente, Spain’s transport minister, to Malaga on Thursday last week, to address a forum on Costa del Sol transport infrastructure, organised by the newspaper at the NH hotel.
With regard to the airport, minister Puente told the audience that €1.5 billion was earmarked for expansion over the period 2027-2031 – a project that will improve security and parking, and prepare the airport for an annual capacity of some 36 million passengers.
He also explained that the Cercanías C1 line will be upgraded to double track near the airport and station platforms extended to make way for longer trains and increased frequency. Gantry upgrades on the C2 line from Malaga to Álora have also been completed and tracks are now being renewed to enable an hourly train service in both directions.
The long-discussed coastal rail line is finally being agreed, and is expected to be executed in phases, starting with the heavily populated corridor from Estepona to Malaga city. And next year, improvements to the high-speed line near Cordoba will cut journey times between Seville, Malaga and Granada by some 20 minutes, by ending the need for trains to reverse direction at Cordoba station.
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